Making Reading Visible

In Megan's sixth grade classes, students make a "book chain" of all the books they've read. When they finish reading a book, they make a link and add it to the chain. Students delight in keeping track of how many books they've read so far, as well as setting goals for the future.

Students celebrate completing the first loop around the classroom.

By the end of the 2012-2013 year, the students had read 1,370 books.

We celebrated by stretching the chain as far as we could, then eating doughnuts.

This year's students have set the goal of reading 1,500 books.